France, Qatar end suburbs dispute with new fund

France and Qatar launched a mixed Franco-Qatari fund Sunday to invest 300 million euros in small and medium-sized French companies, in a bid to quash concerns raised by a previous Qatari plan to invest specifically in depressed French suburbs.
The fund will be operational from July, said Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the head of French state-owned bank Caisse de Depots, which is co-shareholder of the fund with Qatar’s sovereign fund Qatar Holding LLC………………………………………..Full Article: Source